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Surveillance Drones to Equip Armata Combat Vehicles
2016-11-24 Read More...
Russia’s advanced combat vehicles built on the Armata platform will be equipped with surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will be scanning the battlefield for dozens of miles around, helping to clarify the situation and guiding rounds

Russia’s New Sniper Rifle Passes Field Tests
2016-11-14 Read More...
Russia’s all-new sniper rifle has successfully passed field tests and is ready to enter service, Dmitry Semizorov, Director of the Central Scientific-Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering (TSNIITOCHMAS), told the media, RIA Novosti

Russia Unveils Kamikaze Robotic Tank
2016-10-06 Read More...
Russian Army scouts and Special Operations troops will soon add to their arsenal a unique kamikaze robot capable of destroying enemy tanks and fortifications by getting close to them and blowing itself up, Izvestia

Russia Developing New Naval Sonar Network
2016-08-01 Read More...
A state-of-the-art sonar system to protect Russia's territorial waters in the Arctic is already under development, the newspaper Izvestia quoted a Russian Defense Ministry source familiar with the situation as

Russia Gets World’s Smallest Multi-Shot Grenade Launcher
2016-06-30 Read More...
The Bur, the world’s most compact multi-shot grenade launcher, has been put into service with Russia's anti-terror units, according to the Russian newspaper

Russia Halts Kalashnikov Rifle Orders
2011-10-03 Read More...
The Russian army said it is halting orders of the famous Kalashnikov Assault Rifle until a newer model is developed by its

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